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Las Vegas has been through many reinventions — the Rat Pack era, the family-friendly moment, the uber-luxe resort era. But the profound, post-recession Vegas reinvention that has gone most unremarked upon to date is not something the Vegas tourist authorities like talking about: It's the revenue-generation reinvention. As anyone observant who has been to Vegas can see, many of the once-grand waterfalls and mountains are gone now from the Strip, obscured by a cacophony of bars and stores squeezing cash out of visitors. Nobody can afford to waste valuable Strip-side real estate on a stage set for a pirate-ship battle anymore, not unless there's a revenue-generating angle,...

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